I have a full node on a Gentoo box. I have port forwarding on my router setup so that port 8333 is sent to the IP of my full node. I opened port 8333 on the machine using:
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 8333 -i wlp4s0 -j ACCEPT
The node is fully synced with the network and I can watch new blocks arrive in the debug log. I thought I was fully participating in the network, but when I check for my full node at Bitnodes it says that my node is unreachable.
Any suggestions? Is there any other way to test public access to my full node?
nc -z localhost 8333; echo $?
does it output 0 (success) or 1 (failure)? – Nick ODell Oct 06 '17 at 00:13nc -z <external ip address of router> 8333; echo $?
If that fails, there's a networking issue or a portforwarding issue. PS: Debian rules. – Nick ODell Oct 06 '17 at 03:57